SOURCE: “Monsters Wrapped in Silk: James Merrill's Country of a Thousand Years of Peace,” in Contemporary Poetry, Vol. IV, No. 4, 1982, pp. 1-30.
In the following essay, McClatchy studies the elusive poems of Country of a Thousand Years of Peace.
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